Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, opposed Trump early in the 2016 GOP primary but has since transformed into a major supporter. She said the president’s economic record with unemployment at half-century lows, a soaring stock market and wage growth across the board shows that he is “delivering for Americans and the American family.”
Heading into the Nevada caucuses on Feb. 22 and then the South Carolina primary at the end of the month, she said it appears as if Bloomberg is trying to “buy the nomination” and outmaneuver Sanders with help from the party establishment. “It will be interesting to see if the party lets that happen,” she said.
Martin also predicted Bloomberg’s record will turn off a lot of voters in battleground states in the industrial Midwest. “He wants to suppress Second Amendment rights and he seems to have had a lot of flip-flops on positions” over the years, she said.
In the end, Bloomberg has shown that he is “certainly not a moderate, and is very much in favor of big-government control and thinks he knows best how to run all of our lives – including the small details of our lives,” Martin said, a reference to taxes on sugary sodas that Bloomberg has pushed in various states over the last several years.
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